For years I have suspected a religious crisis is behind America’s abortion crisis. While manning the “Children Are a Gift from God” booth at the Azalea Festival, I saw further evidence of it.

“Children Are a Gift from God” is the most powerful of all the pro-life messages because it has no logical comeback. Its real power lies in the last word — “God.” Anyone willing to publicly confirm His presence soon becomes more pro-life in their outlook.

Back to the festival: So this immaculately dressed middle-age lady comes up to the booth, and I offer a free bumper sticker. She asks about the sponsoring organization. I say we are our own organization and work essentially for God.

She takes a sticker and walks off. Twenty minutes later, she returns and asks, “Do you not support a woman’s right to have an abortion?”

No longer the brightest bulb in the chandelier and confused by the double negative, I decide to risk a personal opinion. I say, “In my personal opinion, abortion is an abomination.”

She quietly returns the sticker and walks off.

The Bible is quite clear about mankind being created in God’s image; so an abortion can easily be viewed as a momentary denial of God’s presence. While North Carolinians are lucky to live in the Bible Belt, the last election is adequate proof of other points of view in New England and states in the far West.

Anyone who so much as regularly warms a church seat may soon be regarded as a religious fanatic.

Local churches interested in these miraculous stickers for their congregations can contact Brandon@hh76.com.